This study aimed at exploring the ontological indeterminacies of The Sea (2005), a novel by John Banville using the postmodern catena put forth by Ihab Hassan. Hassan’s catalogue of the features of postmodern fiction includes indeterminacy, fragmentation, decanonization, selflessness, depthlessness, the unpresentable/unrepresentable, irony, hybridization, carnivalization, performance, participa...

Introduction This paper develops a literature review of the flexicurity discourse as this has been developed in the European Union's debates and policies. The analysis of the European Employment Strategy and the flexicurity principles developed by the European Commission will be crucial factors for the development of this review. Furthermore, the chapter aims to review the literature concerning...

This chapter is the first in a two-chapter discussion on the nature of the derivation of Verb-Subject-Object (VSO) order. In this chapter, I will present a short history of the various analyses of the derivation of VSO in the literature,2 for both Irish and for VSO languages in general. In chapter 3, I focus narrowly on the syntax of Irish, where I present some previous analyses of Irish within...

The purpose of this paper is to address some important questions surrounding the determinants of Irish inflation. As a backdrop, the international theoretical literature on inflation is selectively reviewed, with a view towards assessing its relevance to Ireland. Subsequently, the relevant Irish empirical literature is assessed in order to highlight the main outstanding areas of disagreement su...